(Granada capital) The actions of a priest in Barcelona kicked off a donor chain involving six people, ending in Granada’s Virgen de las Nieves hospital.

This is how it worked: the priest, for completely altruistic reasons donated a kidney to a man in a Barcelona hospital. The wife of the kidney receiver wanted to donate one of hers, but she was not compatible with her husband, so instead she donated the kidney that she was willing to give to her husband to a patient in the Granada hospital.

The partner of the receiving patient in Granada had the same problem as the wife of the receiving patient in Barcelona, so she donated her kidney to a woman back in Barcelona.
As you can imagine the logistics of operating on six people in two distant locations in Spain, timing each surgical intervention to coincide with the next, and each one being practiced on a live patient, was very complex, but the whole thing worked out perfectly.

In the first four months of the year, Granada has carried out 21 kidney transplants as well as 14 liver transplants, however, the waiting list for kidney transplants in the province has 200 people on it.

(News: Metropolitan area, Granada, Andalucia)